Deadline:  12:00 Noon, Friday, March 21, 2008

$1000 commission to be awarded to a Jacobs School of Music student majoring in Composition for a work for solo voice and instrumental ensemble to be performed by the IU New Music Ensemble.

Students wishing to be considered for the award will enter a work for voice and Instruments in Category B of the Composition Department's Dean's Prize competition. The Composition Department Faculty will choose 2 works from Category B as Commission prize winners; one of these commissions will be the Georgina Joshi Commission for a work for solo voice and instruments, awarded to the composer of the work for voice and instruments ranked highest as judged by the Composition  Department Faculty.

During the summer following the award, the director of the New Music Ensemble will meet with both commissioned composers to determine the length and instrumentation of the commissioned works.